In Time You’ll Be Heard is the art exhibition component of the Yokohama Paratriennale 2020, which was made as a book form.
Born in 1971 in Mie Prefecture. He lives in Nagoya City and has been a member of Safran Seikatsu En since 1987. Using a convenience store in town and a copy machine at the welfare facility, he scans his own face and the things he likes at the time, as part of his daily routine. By pressing his face against the glass surface and operating the buttons by himself, he creates a unique distortion by moving his body with the movement of the sensor light. These actions were born out of playfulness with a welfare facility staff and became habitual. He has been going to the same convenience store for about 15 years, and when he does, the store staff deftly wipes the grease from his face off the glass surface.
Born in 1966, she lives in Shiga Prefecture and has been a member of Yamanami Kobo since 1985. She is not good at communicating her feelings to people, so she continues to make sculptures of a person that she wants to look at her as a communication tool. Her sculpture model is just the person she loves. After deciding on the subject matter and preparing the original shape, she painstakingly fills the entire surface with fine-grained ceramic clay. It can take more than two months to complete a large artwork, and the countless grains covering the entire surface of the work transform it into various shapes. She just wants the man she loves to approve of her work—to this day, this desire is all she has in mind as she heads into each creation.
Born in 1984, she lives in Yokohama. She has been a member of Art Maple Kalen in Kohoku-ku, Yokohama since 2003. She has been creating paintings and embroidery of characters from Disney and children’s TV shows, as well as landscapes, food, etc. Many of them are created in succession, using similar objects and compositions. For some time now, she has been producing video works by making time-lapse films while moving puppets and stages drawn on paper.
Born in 1970, he lives in Saitama Prefecture. He has been a member of the Social Welfare Service Corporation Minuma Fukushi Kai Kobo Shu. When he relaxes in his daily life, such as after dinner or when he can take a break, he holds a box of photographs and enjoys looking at them, sometimes lying in bed. After years of touching them, the photos have taken on various forms. He has participated in This is Amazing! (Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 2015), Art Brut from Japan, Another Look (Collection de l’art brut, 2018), and many other exhibitions.
Jess Thom is a writer and artist. She cofounded Touretteshero in 2010 to creatively sublimate her own Tourette’s syndrome. Her theatrical works Backstage in Biscuit Land, and Not I, based on Samuel Beckett’s theater of the absurd, have been performed at the Unlimited Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe to critical acclaim. She is also active in the community, including organizing participatory events for children with Tourette’s syndrome. She is the author of Welcome to Biscuit Land: A Year in the Life of Touretteshero (2012).
Born in 1974 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Based on his experience as an elementary school teacher, he has chosen “education” as one of his central themes and creates works based on children’s workshops. Through creative sensibilities hidden in conversation and play, he depicts the peculiarities of systems and customs that usually go unnoticed and the relationship between individuals and society. In recent years, he has been working on a number of projects in collaboration with local communities. Major exhibitions include Go Betweens: The World Through Children (Mori Art Museum and others, 2014–2015), the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (India, 2016), and Asian Art Award 2017 (TERRADA Art Complex, 2017). His most recent piece of writing is Kamagaminoiware in Art and Labor, edited by Masao Shirakawa and Atsushi Sugita (Suiseisha 2018).
Li Binyuan was born in 1985 in Yongzhou, China. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2011. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Li Binyuan creates performance art with a sculptural mind, much of which is presented in the form of performance videos. Through his personal interventions, Li invites viewers to reconsider established/conventional boundaries, casting doubt on common sense as a medium of control. His recent major exhibitions include Land: Zhang Huan and Li Binyuan (MoMA PS1, New York, USA, 2018) and Li Binyuan (HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019).
The Isogo-ku Shogaisha Chiiki Katsudo Home is a community for people with various disabilities in Isogo-ku, Yokohama. Recent years’ activities include the Yokohama Art Site project “Greetings Series, Vol. 2: My Normal, Your Normal” (https://y-artsite.org), co-planned and co-produced with Satoshi Iitsuka. Satoshi Iitsuka is a filmmaker. After working for an independent film production company, he became a freelance director. He has produced a wide range of films, mainly for TV. In recent years, he has been involved in independent productions of documentary films and in planning and running projects in collaboration with the Isogo-ku Shogaisha Chiiki Katsudo Home. He is also active as a member of Backers (Dengeki Shogaisha Shohin Kikaku Kaigi).
Poet. Born in Germany. Winner of the 33rd Gendai Shi Techo Award. Her recent publications include a book of poetry in Japanese and English entitled Butterflies (Shichosha), and an art book entitled Motto Shiritai Yakimono (Pottery That You Want to Know More About) (Tokyo Bijutsu). Her other books of poetry include Nectar’s root as far as its Resonance reaches and Music, of Days. She has exhibited and read poems at the Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Morioka Shoten, and others. As a curator, she worked for Idemitsu Art Museum until 2019, curated exhibitions on ceramics. She has been invited to the Struga International Poetry Festival, the Princeton Festival, and others. Her poems have been translated into several languages.
Born in 1975 in Kyoto, Japan. Calligrapher. Graduated from the Psychology Department of the Faculty of Letters of Ritsumeikan University. Based on detailed research into the origins of characters, she has been creating works that express the intersection of contemporary phenomena and a single Chinese character, as well as holding workshops in Japan and abroad on the theme of exploring the possibilities of expression through the use of characters. She has published ATO 跡 (Marks) (Between the Books), Sho No Sumika (Calligraphic Dwelling Place) (Akaaka), and others. She has also worked on a variety of book title calligraphy, including the collection Senso x Bungaku (War x Literature) (Shueisha) and Ishihara Shin’taro no Bungaku (The Literature of Ishihara Shin’taro)(Bungei Shunju).
Kaneuji creates his works using a collage-like technique that reinterprets existing contexts by cutting out and joining parts of objects around us. He has staged solo exhibitions at the Yokohama Museum of Art (2009), the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013), the Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (2016), and others and has displayed his work in international exhibitions in Japan and abroad. Since 2011, he has also been involved in stage design, and in recent years, he has been creating stage works.
dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) is a musician, curator and producer in the field of experimental electronic arts and improvised music. His musical work builds upon a distinct practice that combines DJing, instrument design and free improvisation. Between 2007-2012, he was Artistic Director of STEIM, Studio of Electro-Instrumental Music Amsterdam. Currently, he is Co-Director of AMF – A collaborative platform and festival for experimental musicians in Asia.
Born in Saitama Prefecture. She graduated from Tsuda University in 2018 with a degree in International Relations and completed a master’s program at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 2020. Since July 2017, she has been working as a staff member of theVerbal Imaging Museum Tour with Visually Impaired People, holding workshops on the theme of “seeing” at museums in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.
After majoring in sculpture at the Pratt Institute, she discovered her potential for expression through cooking. A graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education, she worked at Blue Hill and other restaurants in New York before traveling in Europe and Asia. She toured the Pacific Ocean as a chef on an Australian-registered cruise ship and worked at the renowned Tandjung Sari Hotel in Bali before moving her base to Kyoto in 2012, where she has been delving into the local area from the perspectives of food culture, cultural anthropology, and history and expressing them through food, both in Japan and abroad. In 2018, she opened the restaurant Farmoon. Her recent activities include serving as director of the Food Department of Nara City, East Asian Cultural City 2016, and organizer of the Nara Food Caravan. She also produced the film An Empty Vessel (director: Hiroo Ninomiya; photography: Masato Indo).
Photographer and artist. Her work is mediated by photography, video, and text. Major exhibitions include Criterium 68 at Art Tower Mito (2006), Kenpoku Art 2016 (2016), Ichihara Art x Mix (2014), and The Second Stage at GG#46 at Guardian Garden (2017). She is the author of a book of photography and poetry entitled Ikiru (coauthored by Shuntaro Tanigawa, Nanarokusha, 2008) and other publications. In addition to Kiwamari-so in Mito, she runs Maison Kenpoku, which is based on research and projects to open up spaces in the community.
Born in 1967 in Miyazaki Prefecture. He is a manga artist and painter. He studied oil painting at Musashino Art University, but since 2000, he has chosen manga as a method of expression that allows him to draw time. His manga works include New Engineering, Travel, NIWA, Baby Boom, The Room of the World Map, Iceland, and Plaza, many of which have been translated and published in the USA, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, and other countries. He also produces paintings and has held solo and group exhibitions in Japan and abroad.
Robert Campbell, Ph.D., is a scholar of Japanese literature and the Director-General of the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL), Tokyo. Born in New York City, he studied in the Departments of Economics and Oriental Languages, University of California, Berkeley (B.A. 1981), and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Harvard University (M.A. 1984; Ph.D. 1992). Campbell moved to Japan to study Edo literature as a research student in the Department of Japanese Language and Literature, Kyushu University, Fukuoka City (1985), joining that department as assistant professor (1987). He then moved on to the National Institute of Japanese Literature, Tokyo (associate professor, 1995), and relocated to the University of Tokyo in 2000, where he taught as professor from 2007. His tenure as Director-General of NIJL began in 2017. Robert Campbell’s research centers on the sinological literature, art, media and intellectual discourses of late Edo and early Meiji period Japan. Besides editing and contributing to numerous volumes on Japanese literature, art and drama, he is active in the Japanese media as television host, news commentator, newspaper columnist, book reviewer and radio personality.
Born in Saitama Prefecture. She graduated from Tsuda University in 2018 with a degree in International Relations and completed a master’s program at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 2020. Since July 2017, she has been working as a staff member of theVerbal Imaging Museum Tour with Visually Impaired People, holding workshops on the theme of “seeing” at museums in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.
Designer / Artist. Graduated from the fashion design course of the junior college department at Bunka Fashion College (currently Bunka Gakuen University). Shinohara made her debut as a singer with Sony Music Records in 1995 and has built a prolific career as a TV, movie and stage actress. She has also taken on various roles in TV commercials and programs as a narrator / voice actress. She has also been working as a costume designer for others and has done stage costumes for Japanese artists such as Yumi Matsutoya (singer) and Arashi (idol group) for their concert tours. She has worked with various renowned companies to launch collaborative products as an illustrator. In 2020, she founded the creative studio, STUDEO with an art director Tatsuki Ikezawa. At "SHIKAKU -pictures transforming costumes-", held in July 2020, she challenged the issue of sustainability and exhibited costume works that used up all the surplus fabric without waste.
He has been involved in creating spaces in cultural and other facilities where diverse people get together. Through the activities of the Universal Museum and diversity-related training programs, he continues to enjoy art appreciation while emphasizing the importance of "experiencing and thinking together with various people.”
Born in 1975 in Kyoto, Japan. Calligrapher. Graduated from the Psychology Department of the Faculty of Letters of Ritsumeikan University. Based on detailed research into the origins of characters, she has been creating works that express the intersection of contemporary phenomena and a single Chinese character, as well as holding workshops in Japan and abroad on the theme of exploring the possibilities of expression through the use of characters. She has published ATO 跡 (Marks) (Between the Books), Sho No Sumika (Calligraphic Dwelling Place) (Akaaka), and others. She has also worked on a variety of book title calligraphy, including the collection Senso x Bungaku (War x Literature) (Shueisha) and Ishihara Shin’taro no Bungaku (The Literature of Ishihara Shin’taro)(Bungei Shunju).
Born in 1973 in Kanagawa. After working for 12 years in public art museums such as Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, she began working independently in 2013. Her interest lies in human being’s psychological transition in conjunction with the change of time, which also relates to her theme: How can we recognize invisible social structures that result in difficulties such as poverty, disparity or discrimination? In practice, her interest manifests in the topics of Japanese modern and contemporary history, globalization and new-media art from the world, which have been expressed in numerous exhibitions, both domestic and overseas, during her career. Her recent curatorial practices include AKI INOMATA: Significant Otherness (2019), Stranger Than Fiction (2019), Yuko Mohri: Assume That There Is Friction and Resistance (2018) (Those three shows were held in Towada Art Center), Hangzhou Fiber Art Triennial (Zhejiang Art Museum etc. China, 2019) and Enfance (Palais de Tokyo, France, 2018).
Born in 1980 in Osaka. Curator at Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery. After working at art centers and other institutions, she started working on projects that defy categorization under the theme of “disability is a perspective that redefines the world.” Through projects dealing with expressions that have yet to be evaluated and valued, she rethinks the way we view and perceive expressions together with people with disabilities and viewers. Recent projects include the exhibitions The Great Everyday Life (NO-MA, 2017) and Dance Work in Progress (KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, 2017–2019), the film Night Cruising (2019), and the game Audio Game Center (2017–present). She has been a speaker at conferences on disability and diversity, including DO-IT of the University of Tokyo and Rare with Google, and has been a part-time lecturer at the School of Liberal Arts Research and Education of the Tokyo Institute of Technology since 2018. She is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of Waseda University.
Megumi Hatai is the current Curator of Contemporary Art at Chiba City Museum of Art. A native of Wakayama Prefecture, Hatai decided to leave high school to become a patissier. She studied at the Tsuji Institute of Patisserie and Centre de Perfectionnement Ecole Hôtelière Tsuji, Château de I'Eclair. She then went on to train at Chocolaterie Béline (Le Mans, France), and later worked for two years at Charles Friedel (Osaka). After completing her General Education Certificate, Hatai resumed her academic studies at Osaka University Faculty of Letters, where she majored in modern Western art history. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Osaka University, and is currently A.B.D. in the Doctoral Course for the History of Western Art. After working as a curator at Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Hatai assumed her current position in 2015. She is responsible for the exhibition and collection of contemporary art as well as museum education. Some of her recent work includes the exhibition 目[mé]: Obviously, no one can make heads nor tails (2019) and Shinji Ogawa: The Whole World Without You (2016). She is currently overseeing the planning for a new series of programming on the occasion of the Chiba City Museum of Art’s renewal and expansion. This “Art Lab” project offers visitors a workshop space to participate in making of contemporary artworks.
Direction & Production: Shunya Hagiwara
Cording: Kyoko Wada
Art direction: Natsuko Yoneyama
Movie direction: Shintaro Tamada
Sign language interpretation: Yuko Setoguchi, Misa Wada (The Project to Make Museums Accessible for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing)